Best movies like Scream 4
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Plot Summary:
Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 168000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, teen horror, twist ending, suspenseful, creepy, splatter, brutal, bloody
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Similar in 75%
Prom Night (2008)
Plot Summary:
Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, intense, slasher, rough, bloody, teen, dark, teen horror
Similar in 82%
Tormented (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film centers on Darren Mullet, a bullied asthmatic, driven to suicide by his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers and bullied at school. He returns from the dead to pay his teenage tormentors a final visit.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, bloody, suspense, disturbing, cyber, cult classic
Similar in 90%
Scream 3 (2000)
Plot Summary:
A murdering spree begins to happen again, this time its targeted toward the original Woodsboro survivors and those associated with the movie inside a movie, 'Stab 3'. Sydney must face the demons of her past to stop the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 161000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, splatter, intense, exciting, realistic, psychological
Similar in 75%
Student Bodies (1981)
Plot Summary:
Director Mickey Rose's zany send-up of teen slasher flicks features a maniacal psycho known as the Breather (played by Jerry Belson), who stalks –and murders– promiscuous students at a suburban high school. The fanatical killer's unusual weapons include paper clips, blackboard erasers and eggplants. Kristen Riter, Matthew Goldsby, Joe Flood, Kevin Mannis and Sara Eckhardt head the cast.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, slasher, humorous, not serious, bloody, ironic, cult classic, teen, horror comedy, twist ending
Similar in 86%
Harper's Island (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of family and friends travels to a secluded island for a destination wedding. They've come to laugh... to love... and, though they don't know it... to die. As the wedding festivities begin, friendships are tested and secrets exposed as a murderer claims victims, one by one, transforming the wedding week of fun and celebration into a terrifying struggle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, scary, serious, atmospheric, realistic, exciting, detective, psychological, anime
Similar in 84%
Scream: The TV Series (2015)
Plot Summary:
What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, anthology, horror comedy, spooky, psychological, sitcom
Similar in 79%
Scream VI (2023)
Plot Summary:
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 112000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: slasher, meta, slasher horror, dark, surprise ending, suspense, psychotronic, detective, grindhouse, teen horror
Similar in 75%
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Plot Summary:
As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits and apparently kills a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, a year later somebody starts sending them letters bearing the warning "I Know What You Did Last Summer.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 156000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, teen, intense, tense, splatter
Similar in 86%
Scream 2 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the terrifying events that occurred in Woodsboro, Sidney is now attending Windsor College in Cincinnati, and Gale Weathers' best selling book on Sidney's life has now been made into a major motion picture. When two college students are killed in a theatre while watching the new film 'Stab', Sidney knows deep down that history is repeating itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 206000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, sexy, twist ending, bloody, splatter, horror comedy, psychological
Similar in 77%
Sorority Row (2009)
Plot Summary:
When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, when after graduation a mysterious killer goes after the five of them and anyone who knows their secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, bloody, creepy, teen, scary, dark, teen horror, twisted, psychological thriller
Similar in 79%
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
Plot Summary:
Unfinished business with coed Julie James brings the murderer to the Bahamas to terrorize her and her friends, Karla, Tyrell and Will, during a vacation. Can Ray Bronson who survived a bloody attack alongside Julie two summers ago, get to the island in time to save everyone?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, teen horror, suspenseful, bad ending, bloody, intense, teen, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Scream (2022)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, slasher horror, scary, psychotronic, bloody, dark, suspenseful, psychological, entertaining
Similar in 83%
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their destination. Partying ensues, and Mandy's close pal, Emmet, keeps a watchful eye on the young males making a play for Mandy. Then two of the students are murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, slasher, teen, serious, teen horror, splatter, cult classic
Similar in 88%
Valentine (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five friends are stalked and murdered by a masked assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough, surprise ending, bloody, teen, serious, psychological
Similar in 84%
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Plot Summary:
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, splatter, scary, bloody, serious, realistic, creepy
Similar in 79%
Scream (1996)
Plot Summary:
A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 381000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, bloody, parody, teen, spooky, cult classic
Similar in 77%
My Soul to Take (2010)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, bloody, surprise ending, splatter, grindhouse, horror comedy
Similar in 88%
Cry Wolf (2005)
Plot Summary:
Eight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, intense, serious, entertaining, teen
Similar in 84%
Cursed (2005)
Plot Summary:
A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults, who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill their attacker if they hope to change their fate to avoid becoming werewolves too.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, slasher, teen, suspenseful, horror comedy, cult classic, teen horror, suspense, humorous
Similar in 75%
Cherry Falls (1999)
Plot Summary:
Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the safety of the teens in general and in particular his own daughter Jody, who is still a virgin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, teen, independent film, bloody, suspense, dark
Similar in 87%
Detention (2011)
Plot Summary:
As a killer named Cinderhella stalks the student body at the high school in Grizzly Lake, a group of co-eds band together to survive while they're all serving detention.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, psychological, funny
Similar in 90%
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Plot Summary:
The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country in 'Urban Legends: Final Cut', the suspenseful follow up to the smash hit 'Urban Legend'. At Alpine University, someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost - even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect. 'Urban Legends: Final Cut' is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep you guessing until the shocking climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, surprise ending, teen, bloody, teen horror, perverse, queer horror, realistic
Similar in 88%
Tragedy Girls (2017)
Plot Summary:
Following two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small Midwestern town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, horror comedy, captivating, suspenseful, dark comedy, scary, funny, bloody, suspense
Similar in 88%
The Final Girls (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, parody, humorous, scary, horror comedy, bloody, funny, absurd, spoof, satirical
Similar in 77%
Friday the 13th (1980)
Plot Summary:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 155000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic, brutal, splatter
Similar in 78%
Urban Legend (1998)
Plot Summary:
There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at the gas station when not looking, into reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, teen, scary, splatter, cult classic, psychological thriller
Similar in 77%
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen (Johnny Depp), must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 258000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, demonic, disturbing, bloody, creepy, dark, spooky
Similar in 76%
Odd Thomas (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, stylized, serious, horror comedy, dark fantasy, touching, sad, surreal
Similar in 78%
Jennifer's Body (2009)
Plot Summary:
A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, dark comedy, scary, teen horror, slasher, black comedy, teen, horror comedy, cult classic, satirical
Similar in 88%
My Bloody Valentine (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry Warden wanted revenge. Exactly one year later, on Valentine’s Day, he woke up…and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, twist ending, stylized, intense, suspenseful, brutal, entertaining